Weave your web: How to create a WordPress website

Find out how to build a brilliant new website to showcase your blog, portfolio or business in this hands-on masterclass with digital marketer David Fernando, managing director of Terra Ferma Media.

Learn the skills you need to create and manage a WordPress site – all in the space of half a day.

This session will cover:

• An introduction to WordPress

• Setting up a basic WordPress website

• Publishing posts and pages

• How to update and manage your content

• Creating a stylish design for your site with WordPress themes

• Improving the functionality of your website with WordPress plugins

• How to increase web traffic using search engine optimisation (SEO) techniques

• Practical exercises on your laptop, plus follow-up downloads and video tutorial links

Please bring along your own PC or Mac laptop and charger that can connect to the Internet – WiFi access will be available to all attendees. No spares will be available on the day – it is essential you bring your own computer along.